At least seven people, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli operation in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials have said.

Witnesses said about 50 tanks, backed by bulldozers, pushed further into Gaza, taking up positions near Rafah.

The Israeli military said it carried out air strikes on militant targets, including a group which it said was trying to launch an anti-tank rocket.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

S'CUSE ME, but militant targets that are "trying to launch an anti-tank rocket"

would seem to be defensive, in response to "50 tanks, backed by bulldozers"

The Lebanese soldiers retch as they unload maggot-infested body bags into coffins laid out for the mass burial. The bodies had lain unrecovered for up to ten days in the burned-out shells of cars, or scattered around the devastated villages of south Lebanon.

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A long time ago I learned from one of my Bible Study teachers that Tyre was meant to represent a picture of the world.

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